10 Absolute Wrestling FREAKS! ?

5. Randy Savage

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Angry, wired and permanently paranoid per just about everybody that worked with him, Randy Savage was supposedly just as intense a figure to be around behind the scenes as he looked on screen, but the pro wrestling freak energy was what made the Macho Man The Man.

Nobody moved around the ring quite like Savage. Both performative and fiercely focused, he paced and attacked like he had a GoPro attached to his head with the crosshairs locked on his poor opponent. If cowering from a babyface, he’d put just as much energy into running away as he would charging into battle.

The wingspan poses to let the tassels on the gear drop loose, scaling turnbuckles at a breakneck pace just to supposedly put over a partner with a point, stares at best friends so terrifyingly piercing that they could cut through glass; sometimes Randy Savage just did stuff, and more’s the pity that so much of that freak finesse was squeezed out of the mainstream product during the monopoly years.

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